Re: [MLUG] Accessing web pages in perl

[Stephen Montgomery-Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

Jonathan King wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 1 Mar 2002, Montgomery-Smith, Stephen wrote:
> 
> > Curtis Jewell wrote:
> > >
> 
> [snip]
> 
> > > use LWP::Simple;
> > >
> > > is probably your best bet.
> > > --Curtis
> >
> > Thanks - it is exactly what I need.
> 
> This does point out an oddity with some of perl's extensive module
> system, though.  You could try guessing the name of this one for quite a
> long time before you got it right. "libwww-perl" -> LWP, as it turns out.
> Most of the modules have more intuitive names now, but not all of them.
> 
> jking
> 

Well I did manage to find it, but my method was unorthodox - I perused
http://www.freebsd.org/ports


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